[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Wed Jul 29 12:27:09 CDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:37:48PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:46:37AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> >> Not for nothing is NTSC sardonically known as Never The Same Color...
> > 
> > That's for a different reason. The color signal was transmitted a phase 
> > encoded 3.57 mHz signal overlayed with the video signal. The phase is reset
> > to "zero" at the end of each field. 
> 
> But chroma sample sharing is a significant factor in NTSC's notorious
> color-fringing, not so?

Presumably, but then shouldn't PAL also have color fringing since PAL
also uses reduced chroma sampling?



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